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note module removals, update on BitTorrent issue

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@ -26,8 +26,8 @@ Readline and GDBM are covered by the GNU General Public Licence. I think
Eberhard Mattes' porting changes to BSD DB v1.85 are also GPL'ed (BSD DB
itself is BSD Licenced). ncurses and expat appear to be covered by MIT
style licences - please refer to the source distributions for more detail.
zlib is distributable under a very free license. GNU MP and GNU UFC are
under the GNU LGPL (see file COPYING.lib).
zlib is distributable under a very free license. GNU UFC is under the
GNU LGPL (see file COPYING.lib).
My patches to the Python-2.x source distributions, and any other packages
used in this port, are placed in the public domain.
@ -77,7 +77,6 @@ My development system is running OS/2 v4 with fixpack 12.
- GNU GDBM (Kai Uwe Rommel's port available from Hobbes or LEO, v1.7.3)
- zlib (derived from Hung-Chi Chu's port of v1.1.3, v1.1.4)
- expat (distributed with Python, v1.95.6)
- GNU MP (Peter Meerwald's port available from LEO, v2.0.2)
- GNU UFC (Kai Uwe Rommel's port available from LEO, v2.0.4)
@ -125,8 +124,8 @@ Where I've been able to locate the required 3rd party packages already
ported to OS/2, I've built and included them.
These include ncurses (_curses, _curses_panel), BSD DB (bsddb185),
GNU GDBM (gdbm, dbm), zlib (zlib), GNU Readline (readline), GNU MP (mpz)
and GNU UFC (crypt).
GNU GDBM (gdbm, dbm), zlib (zlib), GNU Readline (readline), and GNU UFC
(crypt).
Expat is now included in the Python release sourceball, and the pyexpat
module is always built.
@ -326,7 +325,6 @@ Procedure
zlib (1.1.4) HAVE_ZLIB
GNU UltraFast Crypt HAVE_UFC
Tcl/Tk HAVE_TCLTK (not known to work)
GNU MP HAVE_GMPZ
GNU Readline HAVE_GREADLINE
BSD DB (v1.85) HAVE_BSDDB
ncurses HAVE_NCURSES
@ -625,8 +623,9 @@ item 13 above), the BitTorrent curses downloader works too. I'd
appreciate any success or failure reports with BitTorrent, though
I've regretfully recommended that the person who reported the failure
take this up with eCS support. Since this report, I have received a
followup which suggests that the problem may have been a buggy network
card driver. I think it suffices to say that BitTorrent is a fair stress
followup which suggests that the problem may be addressed by TCP/IP
fixes (IC35005+PJ29457, contained in NEWSTACK.ZIP in the Hobbes
archive). I think it suffices to say that BitTorrent is a fair stress
test of a system's networking capability.
25. In the absence of an EMX implementation of the link() function, I've
@ -649,6 +648,9 @@ implementation in IBM's TCP/IP stack:-
- unlike Unix, the socket endpoints don't exist in the filesystem;
- by default, sockets are in binary mode.
27. As of Python 2.4, the mpz, rotor and xreadlines modules have been
dropped from the Python source tree.
... probably other issues that I've not encountered, or don't remember :-(
If you encounter other difficulties with this port, which can be
@ -688,4 +690,4 @@ Andrew MacIntyre
E-mail: andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au, or andymac@pcug.org.au
Web: http://www.andymac.org/
11 April, 2004.
3 October, 2004.